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|BARON EMILE D'ERLANGER DESCRIBE:
HOW THE CHANNEL BUILT FOR
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FTER many vicissitudes during
the last century the Channel Tunnel project is once more to the fore. I have never wavered in my conviction that the tunnel should
and would be built, but when the Atlantic coast of France, as well leaves no loophole House of Commons rejected the as England's coasts, would add in the result to be o scheme in 1930 I decided that it mensely to the enemies' problems. engineering point could not be revived in my lifetime,
to the engineering aspect, I superable difficulf and I now ask myself, What will have for over 50 years been asso-
As to the mode be the end of this new chapter in ciated with eminent engineers on
we should procee the history of a great scheme? ́both sides of the Channel who have
on the original pli the dified by the eng No doubt strategic considerations studied this question, among will claim first attention, now as in most prominent being Mr. G. Ell the Peacock Comu the past. In France military opin- son, Chief Engineer of the Southern ing the shafts th ion has so far been unanimously in Railway. None of them entertained each side or putti
to a depth of 1001 favour of the tunnel; Marshal Foch the slightest doubt as to the feasi- said that if it had existed in 1914 bility of driving the tunnel from the bottom of thes through the imper the war would not have taken place, shore to shore.
Even some 60 years ago over two a pilot tunnel, 8ft In England military opinion has, to say the least, been divided, since miles of the tunnel had been driven meter, straight ac
under the Channel in the impervi- a total distance the Great War.
estimated Since the strategical and tactical ous chalk strata and could be visit cost
when the (£5,600,000 by the utility of the tunnel in case of war ed until recent years, would depend on the ability to use boring was allowed to fall into ne- engineers' report) There are vario it, approval of its construction glect to save the cost of upkeep.
Practically all these engineers what the procedur would undoubtedly have to be made conditional on adequate defences, believed in the desirability of driv- the pilot tunnel is Already the entrance to the tunnel ing a pilot tunnel first. At relative are making the m has been made safe against any ly small cost, this would put the in order to ascert. surprise attack by the prolongation. feasibility of the project beyond the be the best method of the Maginot Line to the French doubt of the most sceptical and theory, however, coast. The approaches on the would make it easier to find the All along the pi English side would also have to be money for making the main traffic ies would be mad defended adequately.
AVOIDING AIR ATTACK.
tunnels. The pilot tunnel would be to be carried on 2 used subsequently as a drainage several different tunnel and, also, if a road as well main traffic tunne as a railway track were built, for diameter. When
In the last war aerial warfare collecting and handing the carbon- were completed was in its infancy, but in any fu- monoxide gas emanating from car tunnel would pro ture struggle the skies above the exhaust fumes.
a drainage tunne Channel would be one of the most The late Lord Cowdray once said possible the pilot intensive fields of aerial warfare; to me: "If the Government approves slightly convex, ships crossing between France and of the scheme and I am given the tunnels would be England would be attractive tar- contract, I will put up. £1,000,000 With the appro gets. On the other hand, troops and drive the traffic tunnel straight lated that the mai and material passing through the away" I am, however, inclined, 33 miles long and tunnel would be exposed to no
for the reasons just given, to fa- four and a half y such dangers after they had enter your the more prudent course of The pilot tunnel v ed and until they had debouched, building the pilot tunnel firat. about two and a the danger to which they would be
If ever Nature has deliberately ing between six a exposed being no greater than that designed an ideal medium for tun- seven years in all to which they would be exposed nelling and for the provision of Some tunnels ha while actually embarking or disem- quick and easy transport facilities all in one tunnel; barking from ships.
underground, it exists in the strata tunnels of a sma Then again, a preponderating underlying the Channel. In those our case twin tu proportion of the revictualling of early days when construction was better because th the United Kingdom has to be sea- begun, some 7,000 soundings were working to a great borne. Ships carrying these vital taken to test the strata on the ly where the vent supplies are at their start or arrival Channel bed over a width of nine arises.
Some people focused on a very small area, and and a half miles between Folke- in war time would be exposed to stone and St. Margaret's Bay, and about ventilation. enormous risks, principally from between Wissant and Calais. Shafts gineers in some of aircraft but also from submarines. were sunk on both sides of the nels of the world, If the tunnel were in being all the Channel and a mile was driven on long, first installed ports of the Atlantic coast of each side through the impervious tems and then dia France would be available to Bri- grey chalk which exists between the movement of tish and allied ships for landing the two shores. foodstuffs and other materials from: overseas which could be carried directly into England by rail.
The necessity of having to block- ade by submarines or aircraft the
TOTAL LENGTH 33 MILES
Since those days the strata has been reconnoitred in a way which
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through the tunnel air in and out."--V ever, provide vent dispense with it unnecessary.
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